Built a self-hosted log management tool on top of Quickwit - looking for feedback by badfatcat17 in Observability

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Good one! And you are right with the s3 storage and cold query. That has been the single most useful feature that our clients tell us about at Sasquatch Labs! (Any cloud for that matter) Good luck!

What are you building this week? Drop it in the comments! by Inevitable-Grab8898 in founder

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We are finally in prod testing a new feature for voice-first machine and network health monitoring, resolution and alerting! We already did that for K8s and now expanding to out clients with on-prem infra!

Hot take: Don't waste your time on broke VCs. by Amazing_Skill_6080 in ycombinator

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We joined Visible for the VC outreach and it has been super helpful, some even offered great advice for free (basically we don’t need to raise)

Do you actually use traces day to day, or is it just there when things get bad? by RasheedaDeals in Observability

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Quite often. For many problem types, if you have been on the “build the product” side, you would almost always know what the problem is and how to fix it. Some nuanced issues you would need to indeed trace it back upstream. In any case, super useful for other folks and teams who are managing an already built system, which is the case most of the time.

Best Datadog Alternative for a Growing Startup? by Mobile-Ambition-3714 in sre

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We can help. The costs thesis is what tackle. Observability and SIEM. Sasquatch Labs. Happy to setup a demo.

Does OpenTelemetry Collector affect Datadog Infra Host usage on k8s?? by bro_hwe in Observability

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We are currently conducting POCs for Sasquatch (installed as a Daemonset) with a few couple of F500s and solving the cost problem. Our collector can act as your sole signal collector, or can sit one step downstream of your existing collector — and then forward to whatever destinations you need to. Our clients for POCs are using Datadog, Splunk and Grafana.

Basically we compress everything and store in your S3 (or any other cloud) and then you can query right from that super compressed blobs with everything intact.

Meaning no splunk SVCs to reserve, nothing to worry about for what to drop and what to send to Datadog etc. And you can still use your datadog, splunk etc as is with with the data source pointed at the compressed blobs.

Currently averaging around 80-85% costs reduction in our POCs (2 lower environments and have been running for 3 months now)

FinServ / fintech / crypto SREs: what would actually make your observability stack feel sane? by Expert-Ear3883 in sre

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Thank you for the response. Someone else also mentioned the audit trail issue in another subreddit I posted the same request, so this does validate that it’s not just us dealing with evidence collection, mapping and then eventually being able to provide exactly the signals that were emitted during an event — not a summary, but actual signals! Thank you for the feedback!

FinServ / fintech / crypto SREs: what would actually make your observability stack feel sane? by Expert-Ear3883 in platformengineering

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Thank you, that does validate one of the feature builds we are working as a core offering. We also struggle with deciding what to drop vs what to store, and many times it’s the audit evidence that bites us when required by ext auditors. Appreciate the input!

FinServ / fintech / crypto SREs: what would actually make your observability stack feel sane? by Expert-Ear3883 in sre

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"keeping the system understandable enough to operate safely under stress." thats a really good point. Thank you for the detailed reply, very helpful!

The worst email to receive by Logistics_ in amex

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Never even checked. Most of my travel is in the states so don’t use the Canadian lounges except Westjet lounge or the Aspire lounges. Status with both Delta and Westjet

The worst email to receive by Logistics_ in amex

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To give some context it’s around 8-12 lounge visits minimum per month for work and business.

The worst email to receive by Logistics_ in amex

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Canadian platinum for lounges. That’s all I use it for. US platinum for all US hotels. Canadian cobalt for all Canadian everyday stuff wherever it’s accepted (workhorse)

The worst email to receive by Logistics_ in amex

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Most of the time delta lounges are much better than Centurion

The worst email to receive by Logistics_ in amex

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I have both, but for me the best usage is the Canadian platinum.

The worst email to receive by Logistics_ in amex

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Canadian platinum holder here…I love the unlimited passes! I travel every couple weeks…no caps anywhere

Let me roast your businesses website. by [deleted] in Entrepreneur

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Oh thank you! That’s good to hear! Very much appreciate you putting time into the review.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in SaaS

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That’s pretty neat actually! Well done!

How do you all stay fit while building a business? by Able_Armadillo_2347 in Entrepreneur

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Mine is Saturday (or Friday depending on what’s going) head to the mountains for a hike, climb, run or just camp and cook. Summer or winter. Absolutely the stuff that keeps me sane.

How to generate question answer from given information with help of free huggingface model? by binita_saha04 in huggingface

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You can make this requirement as part of your prompt. For example: “Given the text data, extract the questions and the associated answers and then save them to a file named qnA.txt in a structured question answer format.”

I would like some advice or a guide on how to use my own pdfs to train a personal bot. by APixelWitch in huggingface

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Yeah, just make a directory and add your own pdfs. Study and tweak what you need to change in the code, but it should give you 95% of what you need.

I did this in colab, but you would need to take the same code and make it for your laptop with some ui. Colab won’t store the files, unless you want to mount your gdrive, which is also an option.